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So, I was gathering ideas for favors for Michelle's wedding when I ran into THIS.
Pie in a jar
She probably won't do it, as it's a lot of work, and I can't do it since I already had my wedding. BUT THESE THINGS ARE FREAKING EPIC.
You can can them and keep them in the freezer. When you want a serving of pie, you just take the lid off and bake the whole jar.
Hmm.... maybe I smell Christmas presents... Maybe I should try to sell these with my other baked goods!
Oh yeah, I never did post about the Mina Project, did I?
So, Jeremy and I have started going to Hope Community Church, I guess since about sometime in August. At first, we were just looking around at churches near our new apartment. But we both like this and I suppose we've decided to settle here, at least for a bit. I'm taking a financial planning workshop thing there, starting this Wednesday night.
It's a nice church. It's HUGE. Like, people-wise. They have 4 different services on the weekends and satellite parking because they can't fit everyone in one service. At first, that was a bit of a turn-off. I think we both had something smaller in mind. But they're really into outreach and helping out community programs and charities and stuff and it's quite impressive how much help a church that big can give.
For example, a member of the congregation committed suicide, leaving his young wife and two children. The congregation raised $60,000 in one weekend to give to this family to help them through their hard times. (My memory is vague on the specific amount and I could be wrong about it, but it was some impressive figure like that.)
Another example is the Mina Project. They passed out envelopes to every member of the congregation with money in it. I believe the envelopes contained anywhere between $10 to $500. That weekend, they talked about the parable of the talents. The Master gave 3 servants different amounts of "talents" (generally believed to be money). The most honored servant went out and invested his money and returned it and the profits gained. The servant that just held on to it and didn't work it was pretty much fired.
So, the rules of the Mina Project are as follows: Use the money you receive in an activity that will get you more money. Then invest THAT money to get MORE money. In the first week in December, everyone returns the monies gained and the church will give all that money to different charities. I forget what all is getting the money we raise. I know they'll donate some to a mission they've been working with in Africa. They'll give some of it to a church in downtown Raleigh that has been deemed responsible for keeping gang activities in check.
Between the two of us, Jeremy and I got $150. Talk about feeling obligation!
I think it's a pretty cool project though! It's encouraging entrepreneurial skills and helping charities. It took some pondering for me to think of how to raise freaking money, though. But I believe I've found it: baked goods.
Since I have all this free time on my hands until I find a job, I can just bake up a storm and then rent some space and the flea market and sell baked goods, and perhaps throw in some coffee. I think Jeremy is going to try to sell some origami flowers too.
I'm way behind on my game, though. They started this at the beginning of September and there's no way I was going to attempt to mess with that until after the wedding. But now that the wedding is behind us, the fair grounds are closed for the fair. They open back up in early November, so I only have about a month to do my mina-ing. I tried to look for other venues or craft fairs or whatever, but it doesn't look like anything's going to pick up.
So that's that. Hope Community will probably be home for awhile. And I'm cool with that.
Also, as of today, I've been married for a month. :)
Still need to finish unpacking apartment, lol.
Pie in a jar
She probably won't do it, as it's a lot of work, and I can't do it since I already had my wedding. BUT THESE THINGS ARE FREAKING EPIC.
You can can them and keep them in the freezer. When you want a serving of pie, you just take the lid off and bake the whole jar.
Hmm.... maybe I smell Christmas presents... Maybe I should try to sell these with my other baked goods!
Oh yeah, I never did post about the Mina Project, did I?
So, Jeremy and I have started going to Hope Community Church, I guess since about sometime in August. At first, we were just looking around at churches near our new apartment. But we both like this and I suppose we've decided to settle here, at least for a bit. I'm taking a financial planning workshop thing there, starting this Wednesday night.
It's a nice church. It's HUGE. Like, people-wise. They have 4 different services on the weekends and satellite parking because they can't fit everyone in one service. At first, that was a bit of a turn-off. I think we both had something smaller in mind. But they're really into outreach and helping out community programs and charities and stuff and it's quite impressive how much help a church that big can give.
For example, a member of the congregation committed suicide, leaving his young wife and two children. The congregation raised $60,000 in one weekend to give to this family to help them through their hard times. (My memory is vague on the specific amount and I could be wrong about it, but it was some impressive figure like that.)
Another example is the Mina Project. They passed out envelopes to every member of the congregation with money in it. I believe the envelopes contained anywhere between $10 to $500. That weekend, they talked about the parable of the talents. The Master gave 3 servants different amounts of "talents" (generally believed to be money). The most honored servant went out and invested his money and returned it and the profits gained. The servant that just held on to it and didn't work it was pretty much fired.
So, the rules of the Mina Project are as follows: Use the money you receive in an activity that will get you more money. Then invest THAT money to get MORE money. In the first week in December, everyone returns the monies gained and the church will give all that money to different charities. I forget what all is getting the money we raise. I know they'll donate some to a mission they've been working with in Africa. They'll give some of it to a church in downtown Raleigh that has been deemed responsible for keeping gang activities in check.
Between the two of us, Jeremy and I got $150. Talk about feeling obligation!
I think it's a pretty cool project though! It's encouraging entrepreneurial skills and helping charities. It took some pondering for me to think of how to raise freaking money, though. But I believe I've found it: baked goods.
Since I have all this free time on my hands until I find a job, I can just bake up a storm and then rent some space and the flea market and sell baked goods, and perhaps throw in some coffee. I think Jeremy is going to try to sell some origami flowers too.
I'm way behind on my game, though. They started this at the beginning of September and there's no way I was going to attempt to mess with that until after the wedding. But now that the wedding is behind us, the fair grounds are closed for the fair. They open back up in early November, so I only have about a month to do my mina-ing. I tried to look for other venues or craft fairs or whatever, but it doesn't look like anything's going to pick up.
So that's that. Hope Community will probably be home for awhile. And I'm cool with that.
Also, as of today, I've been married for a month. :)
Still need to finish unpacking apartment, lol.